The U.S. intelligence community faces an increasingly complex and evolving national security landscape. State and non-state actors wielding asymmetric weapons pose unfamiliar threats. Commercial competitors collect and analyze vast quantities of data about the world and how people interact with it. Artificial intelligence shows promise for improving tradecraft while also stirring ethical questions.

In this talk, Dr. Andrew L. Brooks, the Chief Data Scientist at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, details how his organization is navigating this landscape through efforts focused on people, data, and technology.